C. 26-7 def-wor (Seq)(Pep) Flashcards

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In World War II, the three great Allied powers—Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union

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The Big Three

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regarded as the founder of modern macroeconomics. His most famous work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, was published in 1936.

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John Maynard Keynes

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a German statesman who served as chancellor in 1923 and as foreign minister from 1923 to 1929, during the Weimar Republic

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Gustav Stresemann

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an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945 (WWII)

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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an Italian nationalist and the founder of Italian Fascism. He ruled Italy from 1922–1925 as Prime Minister, and from 1925–1943 as il Duce, the Fascist dictator. Mussolini’s Fascist takeover of Italy was an inspiration and example for Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany.

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Benito Mussolini

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a paramilitary group in Italy. They were the main militant arm of the National Fascist Party, a radical nationalist political organization that called for the establishment of a new Italian empire by conquest.

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Black Shirts

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a Soviet politician, political theorist, and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.

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Joseph Stalin

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a peasant in Russia wealthy enough to own a farm and hire labor. Emerging after the emancipation of serfs in the 19th century the kulaks resisted Stalin’s forced collectivization, but millions were arrested, exiled, or killed.

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Kulaks

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an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934

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Adolf Hitler

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German political movement led by Adolf Hitler

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Nazis (National Socialists)

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Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel, and a leading member of the Nazi Party of Germany. He was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and a main architect of the Holocaust

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Heinrich Himmler

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the Nazi minister of propaganda under Adolf Hitler. He was instrumental in convincing the German people to support the Nazi regime and maintained their support during World War II.

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Joseph Goebbels

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ruled over Spain from 1939 until his death. He rose to power during the bloody Spanish Civil War when, with the help of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, his Nationalist forces overthrew the democratically elected Second Republic

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Francisco Franco

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prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. He is best known for his role in the Munich Agreement of 1938 which ceded parts of Czechoslovakia to Hitler and is now the most popular example of the foreign policy known as appeasement.

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Arthur Neville Chamberlain

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abbreviation of Schutzstaffel (German: “Protective Echelon”), the black-uniformed elite corps and self-described “political soldiers” of the Nazi Party

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The SS Corps

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an inspirational statesman, writer, orator and leader who led Britain to victory in the Second World War. He served as Conservative Prime Minister twice - from 1940 to 1945 (before being defeated in the 1945 general election by the Labour leader Clement Attlee) and from 1951 to 1955.

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Winston Churchill

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an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe and achieved the five-star rank as General of the Army.

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General Dwight D. Eisenhower